move

English Online Dictionary. What means move‎? What does move mean?

English

Alternative forms

• meve (12th to 16th centuries)
• mieve, mooue, moove (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English moven, moeven, meven, borrowed from Old Northern French mover, moveir and Old French mouver, moveir (“to move”) (compare modern French mouvoir from Old French movoir), from Latin movēre (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move, drive”). Cognate with Lithuanian mauti (“to push on, rush”), Sanskrit मीवति (mī́vati, “pushes, presses, moves”), Middle Dutch mouwe (“sleeve”). Largely displaced native English stir, from Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian.

Pronunciation

• enPR: mo͞ov, IPA^(key): /muːv/
• (MLE) IPA^(key): /myv/
• Rhymes: -uːv

Verb

move (third-person singular simple present moves, present participle moving, simple past and past participle moved)

1. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.

   Synonyms: shift, stir; see also Thesaurus:move, Thesaurus:position
2. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to begin to act

   Synonyms: get moving, stir, take action

4. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.

   Synonyms: flit, move house, remove, shift
5. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another

   Synonyms: drive, impel, propel, stir

6. (transitive, chess, board games) To transfer (a piece) from one space or position on the board to another.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:chess move

7. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.

   Synonyms: entice, induce, inveigle, persuade, sway
9. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).

   Synonyms: affect, excite, touch, trouble
10. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
11. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a complaint).

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:mention

12. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue); to make a proposal to.

    Synonyms: motivate, provoke; see also Thesaurus:incite
13. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
14. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.

15. (intransitive, obsolete) To bow or salute upon meeting.
16. (transitive, business) To sell or market (especially physical inventory or illicit drugs).

17. (transitive, programming) To transfer the value of one object in memory to another efficiently (i.e., without copying it in entirety).

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Dutch: moven

Translations

Noun

move (plural moves)

1. The act of moving; a movement.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:movement
2. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.

3. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.

4. The event of changing one's residence.

   Synonyms: removal, relocation
5. A change in strategy.

6. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
7. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.

   Synonym: play

8. (board games, usually in the plural) A round, in which each player has a turn.

9. (syntax) Within the Minimalist Program, a fundamental operation of syntactic construction

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Dutch: move

Translations

References

• “move”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuːf/
• Hyphenation: move
• Rhymes: -uːf

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English move.

Noun

move m (plural moves)

1. move (step in the execution of a plan or purpose)

   Synonym: zet

Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

move

1. inflection of moven:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Finnish

Etymology

Clipping of motivaatiovemppa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoʋe/, [ˈmo̞ʋe̞]
• Rhymes: -oʋe
• Syllabification^(key): mo‧ve
• Hyphenation^(key): mo‧ve

Noun

move

1. (military slang) A conscript who acquires or has acquired exemptions from physical education for falsified reasons of health, i.e. by feigning sick.

Declension

Derived terms

• verbs: movettaa

Galician

Verb

move

1. inflection of mover:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French mauvais (“bad”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /move/

Adjective

move

1. bad

Interlingua

Verb

move

1. present of mover
2. imperative of mover

Latin

Verb

movē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of moveō

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɔvi
• Hyphenation: mo‧ve

Verb

move

1. inflection of mover:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative